Elon University - Executive Education

Effective Communications for Project Teams

Effective Communications for Project Teams (ECPT) is a half-day, instructor-led, seminar session designed to familiarize participants with the challenges, potential pitfalls, and best practices in communicating with project teams.

This course is part of: The Project Leadership Series^SM

With the ever-increasing outsourcing, off-shoring, and specialization efforts of today’s global business environment, virtual teams are becoming the norm of project teams. Virtual teams can be advantageous to any organization when coupled with proper communication and adequate control. The virtual team environment, however, can carry inherent disadvantages that must be successfully managed throughout the project life cycle.

What you will learn

This seminar will cover the challenges, potential pitfalls, best practice recommendations, and lessons learned in communicating with virtual project teams. Participants will be introduced to the purported advantages and common constraints of the virtual team environment. This will be followed by discussion and application of better (and useful) practices to capitalize on the advantages while limiting the impact of communication and control constraints in the project team setting.

Topics areas include:

Communications Essentials for the Project Team

A Primer on Virtual Teams

Communications Challenges for Project Teams

Better Practices for Team Communications

Who should attend

This seminar will benefit executives, senior managers, resources managers, and functional managers that work with or are considering implementing virtual project teams. It is appropriate for any project stakeholder in any industry.

Participants Will Receive

Comprehensive Student Guide
Certificate of Participation
4 PDUs/ .4 CEUs

Dates

TBD

Registration Fee: $295 | Team: $265 for each additional registration - same organization

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What Previous Attendees Have Said

“Great seminar! I learned a lot and enjoyed the learning as well—thanks!”

“Instructor kept my attention… hands-on activities were very helpful.”

“Fun class; very engaging… Facilitators did a good job explaining the concepts.”

Our Promotional Partner

The Project Leadership Series^SM is presented in collaboration with Tanden LLC, a premier project management consulting and education firm headquartered in Raleigh, North Carolina. Chris Wright, President and Managing Principal of Tanden LLC and architect of The Project Leadership Series^SM, is a certified Project Management Professional and is past VP of Education for the NC chapter of the Project Management Institute. Tanden LLC is a PMI Registered Education Provider.

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